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It's Mother's Night.
Usually on this day I make a post celebrating my Disir - ancestors and mothers and grandmothers and aunts. I thank Frigga. It started a few years ago when I was pregnant - something I never thought I could be.
And then my baby was stillborn. And I continued celebrating Mother's Night, but this time I thanked Frigga for welcoming my baby boy into her halls, hoping that one day I might meet him. And so it went.
This year, I for whatever reason, ran across a Mother's Night post on another platform that mentioned Sigyn - Loki's wife. It talked how she is a mother who is worth mentioning, as her children are driven mad and slain for their father's misdeeds, and how she mourns her sons. How she is considered a goddess of compassion for the grieving.
I had never considered this. But for some reason, it brought me to tears tonight.
I have always had trouble finding information re: the Norse pantheon and their views on stillborn or miscarried babies. I found one or two sources that were probably UPG regarding them going to Frigga's hall, warmed there at her hearth by the mothers who have gone before me, and obviously I've clung to it. I never considered working with other gods who have lost children in general, who might not be at first glance someone considered for a mother/parent type.
I think I need to start an altar piece for Sigyn and Loki.
(edit: it shouldn't need to be said but Nazi/far right/tradwife/quiverfull type folks aren't welcome on my posts. You'll be blocked. Thanks.)
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nicky loves putting flowers in his mama's hair, naturally whenever rio is around she makes sure to grow the prettiest ones for them
#does agatha know where those beautiful flowers are coming from? definetly#she simply lets it happen because nicky loves it#and a lot of nights when rio spends a few minutes with him without agatha knowing he asks all about those flowers#and rio loves those moments where she gets to be nicky's mother#and now im DEPRESSED!#this was just supposed to be cute#sorry#agatha all along#agatha harkness#rio vidal#agatha x rio#agathario#agathario fanart#agatha all along fanart#evgarart
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i have searched for my mother’s love in all the corners of the world
#wanted to note that this is the dialogue in the manga#things that keep me up at night#izutsumi#izutsumi dungeon meshi#izutsumi’s mother#dungeon meshi spoilers#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#dunmeshi#id in alt#my art
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Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.
Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).
Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.
Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.
Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).
AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.
But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s
At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.
#mlp#yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia.#yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show#but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!!#i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse#in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character#personal#delete later#unless you like this analysis stuff#i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did#cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her#mother and father as a teenager#i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased#but i'll put some in the tags#involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity#anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention#(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff#long post#regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at#a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up
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mother night, kurt vonnegut
#mine#kurt vonnegut#mother night#literature#dark academia#light academia#dark academic#academia#books#words words words
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Kurt Vonnegut, from Mother Night; "Chapter Six Hundred & Fourty Three,"
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My Great Grandma who loved her babies very much
Reference that I used for the face!
#I was scrolling through pinterest and saw this woman and I was like: She looks EXACTLY like how I imagine Stan and Ford's mother to look#my art#gravity falls#mabel pines#dipper pines#ig??#caryn romanoff pines#caryn pines#mabel voice: she must have been one hell of a mother to have had to deal with Grunkle Stan and Grunkle Ford when they were kids!#DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT HOW SHE MIGHT HAVE DIED THINKING STANFORD AND STANLEY NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO RECONCILE#DO U EVER THINK ABOUT HOW SHE MUST HAVE BEEN PLAGUED WITH REGRETS AND WHAT-IFS OVER STAN BEING KICKED OUT- WISHING SHE COULD HAVE DONE MORE#DOES THE THOUGHT THAT STANFORD MIGHT HAVE NEVER GOTTEN THE CHANCE TO VISIT HER AT HER DEATHBED OR HER FUNERAL SINCE HE WAS STUCK ELSEWHERE??#EVER HAUNT YOU AT NIGHT???#DOES IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT SHE MIGHT HAVE KNOWN ALL ALONG ABOUT STANLEY- SINCE SHE'S THEIR MOTHER AND “WHAT KIND OF MOTHER CAN'T#RECOGNISE HER OWN CHILDREN APART“#THEY MEET AT STAN'S FUNERAL LIKE: “STANLEY I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED- NOR WHY THAT CASKET AT THE FRONT IS EMPTY RIGHT NOW AND WHY WE'RE#CURRENTLY ATTENDING YOUR FUNERAL- OR WHY YOU'RE EVEN DRESSED UP AS FORD RIGHT NOW.“#“I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON STANLEY- BUT I DO KNOW THAT ONE OF MY SONS DIDN'T DIE IN A DITCH SOMWHERE IN THE FLAMING WRECK OF A CAR CRASH-#AND THAT'S ENOUGH FOR ME.“#SHE GOT THAT MOTHER'S INSTINCT#stan twins parents
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Genie Gave Me a Brother AU
-Slams DPxDC door open and tosses AU idea on table-
Tim's parents send home an artifact that is said to able to grant wishes! While being curious about it Tim messes with the artifact and when he 'solves' it, according to legend one must solve it to get a wish, he wishes he wasn't alone anymore.
The object glows bright and as he shields his eyes he can hear.
'So you have wished it, so it shall be!'
He gets his wish in the form of a recently reincarnated ghost!King (who entered the DC world for a reincarnated vaycay... he should had known something was going to happen because CW was encouraging the break) Danny whose just a baby/toddler right now.
Basically, big brother Tim and baby Danny adventures in Gotham after that.
#danny phantom#danny fenton#crossover#dp x dc#blue rambles#danny phantom dc#writing ideas#random idea#dpxdc#big brother Tim!#Baby!Danny#Toddler!Danny#Tim is excited!#he has a baby brother now!#He totally thinks Danny's actions are normal for a toddler btw#he doesn't realize its not#also he doesn't have to fake an identity for his brother he already came with them! and fake photos of his mom being pregnant with Danny!#Danny is questioning why only a kid not even ten is taking care of him#Oh... oh no its a Jazz 2.0#aka older sibling trying to take of younger sib due to parents being neglectful/busy with themselves#Yeah nope he's going to 'Mother hen Jazz' right back to his new brother#and that means following his brother on his photography trips too#Robin finds them btw one night. Points and says 'Who let these babies out on the streets at this time of the night?!'
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The healing and lasting love of a mom
#for Mother's Day 2023#camila noceda#hunter noceda#toh hunter#older hunter#toh waffles#the owl house#toh edits#loz's edits#loz's art#he's her lil' wolf cub forever#in the last pic he's fetching her to go for dinner at Dell and Gwen's house#like listen: she would've played a huge role in his recovery. after the Collector Palace scene he would've sunk into the darkest depression#in the weeks and many months to follow#she'd check his therapy progress. accompany him to therapy at times and fetch him from therapy too#he needed her warmth and guiding light as foundational building blocks. to be who he was after the timeskip#they'd both always remember that night where he drowned and she pulled him out of the water#she'd make sure he had the best possible Grom Night#and he'd be eternally grateful. they'd also work together throughout the years to follow since her expertise and his can overlap nicely#he keeps visiting the Human Realm now and then. to have movie nights..dinners..road trips etc with her and Luz and Vee#1k#2k#3k#4k#5k#8k#9k#10k#15k#20k
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BEHOLD. I HAVE SOLVED FICTION.
Split version under the cut:
If that's still not enough to make it readable here's a google drive link
#the timeline#mother series#undertale#deltarune#undertale 2#ut2#loz#legend of zelda#relics of hyrule#elder scrolls#fallout#starfield#batim#homestuck#persona series#rpgmaker#yume nikki#ib game#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#touhou#yiik#among us#kid icarus#wowza that's a shitton of tags#this will probably be the last major version#the henry stickmin collection
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death is insane. wdym i’ll never see my grandmother again
#she’s in her chair in the den cant nobody tell me nothing ok#death tw#grief#what’s this house without my grandmother in it? (all the people she left behind)#i cried this morning while eating grits she taught my mother how to make. love is so big when i think of it like that#i thought i heard her walker clack in the hallway last night.#she wears glasses & we have to decide where to keep them#grief is so strange#i can’t keep crying by myself (i’ll be crying for the rest of my life)#love is carrying on. i think.
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thinking about paul saying "we're harkonnens. so this is how we'll survive. by being harkonnens" and about jessica saying "your father didn't believe in revenge" and paul replying "yeah well i do" and how things can die even as they continue to draw breath and how the harkonnens really did kill off all three of the atreides that night not just leto
#dune really explores every possible way someone can die without actually dying#paul's childhood self dying the night his father did#his atreides heritage dying when he seeks revenge#paul himself dying when he drinks the water of life#jessica the wife dying the night leto did#jessica the mother dying when she drinks the water of life#the girl alia could have been dying in the womb#stilgar and the other fremen dying when they become followers#it's all connected y'all#dune#dune part 1#dune part one#dune 1#dune 2021#dune 2024#dune part 2#dune part two#dune 2#dune movie#dune series#paul atreides#paul#jessica atreides#jessica#lady jessica#muad'dib
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The Pantheon of Exandria;
"One thing, Dad. [Mortals] don't fear you, they resent you."
No Children by The Mountain Goats // Critical Role: Campaigns 1 and 3, Critical Role's Downfall
#this has been rotting in my head for months. freeing myself of it by tossing it into the sunday night void.#i blame laura bailey's choice to have the matron poke at the gods paternalism and bells hells as a party#for having the general disposition to the gods that is akin to that of children discovering for the first time that their parents are human#cr downfall#critical role#exandrian pantheon#long post#my post#web weaving#brennan lee mulligan#ashley johnson#matthew mercer#laura bailey#abubakar salim#nick marini#noshir dalal#taliesin jaffe#sam riegel#aabria iyengar#the wild mother#the arch heart#the everlight#the lawbearer#the matron of ravens#the dawnfather#the emissary#cr3#exu downfall
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#Mario#Super Mario#mother#mother series#mother 2#earthbound#Ness#FNF#Friday night funkin#art#fanart#line art#meme#shitpost#discussion#hat#baseball cap#i know what you are#you ain't foolin nobody
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Michael Afton let his FNAF trauma slip again…
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#michael afton#mike schmidt#ballora#fnaf#fnaf movie#sister location#fnaf fanart#five nights at freddy's#I’m so sorry to Michael Afton once again#my boy just misses his mom#TBH he must have mixed feelings on Ballora#similar to with baby Fredbear and spring Bonnie#it just reminds him too much of his mother despite her not being his mom#Ballora is just based off her from what we know#Mike can actually sympathize here though he also misses his mom#Mikes just get mommy issues it comes with the title#Ballora at least is also sympathetic to this#love you dearly Ballora 🩵 really wanted to draw her again
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